30 lines of shakespeare

[JaBlue]

How long will it take to memorize 30 lines of shakespeare (a soliloquoy from Hamlet)?

Is this assignment anything more than busywork?

[diebitter]

Post it here so we can all learn it in an act of mass empathy and solidarity.

oh, and coupla hours?

[JaBlue]

fine. here's the one i'm doing. Hamlet's pissed cuz his mom married his uncle only 2 months after his uncle killed his dad.

Hamlet
O that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst (self-slaughter!) O God, God,
How (weary), stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on 't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come (to this:)
But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two.
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she (would) hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on. And yet, within a month
(Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman!),
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears - why she, (even she)
(O god, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer!), married with my
uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue

On further review I'm just gonna do To be or not to be cuz I memorized that one a long time ago and maybe that will help

[JaBlue]

sorry to bump this piece of crap thread but how does one dress like hamlet?

[diebitter]

assless leather chaps.

Or you could google hamlet images?

[samjjones]

Easy. I had to memorize some lines from Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade, and I still remember them 15 years later.

[JaBlue]

keep in mind that I have a regular wardobe and cannot dress like I'm from that era

[diebitter]

plain black.

And carry a skull.

[Los Feliz Slim]

You're supposed to dress like him too? Jesus.

Assuming you're not going full-on period costume, a blousy black shirt and black pants would work. Look depressed.

[samjjones]

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http://www.25frames.org/media/screens/1030.jpg "Hey Claudius! You killed my father! Big mistake!"

[Warik]

It took me about an hour to memorize 16 lines from Caesar (his pre-assassination speech). Which, now that I think about it, I still have memorized after 7 years. Badass.

I guess it will take you twice as long to memorize 30 from Hamlet.

Oh and yes, it's lame busywork.

[JaBlue]

This is my second time memorizing this [censored] and I don't remember some of the parts AT ALL which is really wierd. I know some half-sentences here and there though. God this sucks

[swede123]

I don't know about the time needed to memorize this, personally I'm a big picture kind of guy, not necessarily keen on detail stuff like memorizing lots of text verbatum.

That being said, it really is a neat thing when someone can recite from memory a large quantity of text. I remember this guy back in our church about ten years ago who every Christmas did a recital of the entire Sermon on the Mount. He was a good speaker too so it was pretty powerful stuff sitting there actually hearing someone speak the words rather than just reading about it.

I say go ahead and work on it. If you learn it really well it will probably be something that sticks in your brain for a long time, giving you lots of opportunities to show off your mad skills.

Swede